MAPC Transportation Funding Recommendations

A few months ago MAPC released a report on recommendations for better funding transportation: https://www.mapc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/TranspoFinanceRecommendations2024.pdf

The recommendations are:

1. Allow cities and towns to tax private parking facilities to generate additional revenue for transportation infrastructure. 
2. Municipalities and regions should be allowed to raise funds via ballot initiative for specific projects or lists of projects.  
3. Cities and towns should continue to take advantage of existing value capture tools, and new tools should be developed to expand the utility of value capture in the Commonwealth.
4. Regional mitigation funds should be established to support public transit, bike, and pedestrian improvements.
5. Increase Transportation Network Company surcharges. 
6. Implement a fee structure for Delivery Network Company Rapid Deliveries.
7.  Implement dynamic road pricing.
8. Expand employer provided access to commuter transit benefits. 
9. Drivers should be charged a per-mile usage fee and municipalities should receive a portion of that fee.  
10. The gas tax should be raised consistently, and the sales tax should be applied to motor vehicle fuel sales. 
11. Authorize automatic traffic enforcement.
12. Close the airplane sales tax loophole and increase the tax on jet fuel and aviation fuel.
13. Implement a fee for ecommerce. 
14. Increase the Massachusetts sales tax to support transit throughout the Commonwealth.
15. Increases in user fees should be subject to predictable and modest increases.
16. All-electronic Tolling should be expanded to other limited access highways.
17. Vehicle registration fees. 
18. Increase MBTA assessments from cities and towns.